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The SmartAgriFood project Partners and Campden BRI Hungary Ltd. are glad to invite all interested partners and stakeholders within the agri-food chain to attend a training course organised by SmartAgriFood project funded by the EU 7th Framework Programme within the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP) on the 6th of March 2013.

We would like to draw your attention to this European Stakeholder Event organised by SmartAgriFood project funded by the EU 7th Framework Programme within the FI-PPP.

The objective of the event is to present the results of the SmartAgriFood project, and show how the pilots developed within the project can be used and applied in the agri-food chain and in the relevant sectors, and to contribute to the exchange of knowledge and views between the agri-food users and the ICT solution providers.

Yesterday took place the second workshop with consumers at the instalations of Bon Preu, in Barcelona. The workshop tried to show the customers the application which is being developed in the "Tailored Information for Consumers" pilot. The consumers were involved and they were obtaining tailored information of several products with their mobile phones. Attached you can see some pictures of the workshop.

Two weeks ago, OPEKEPE participated in the Workshop "Rural Entrepreneurship ... as a way of life " that was organized by the region of Sterea Ellada and the municipality of Istiea. The vice president of OPEKEPE made the presentation with subject “SmartAgriFood ... the innovated services in agri-food chain”. Last week OPEKEPE participated in the Workshop "Rural Entrepreneurship ... as a way of life " that was organized by the region of Sterea Ellada and the municipality of Istiea. The vice president of OPEKEPE made the presentation with subject “SmartAgriFood ...

From 22nd to 26th October 2012, ERTICO – ITS EUROPE, in close co-operation with its counterpart regional organisations and the Host organisation, is organising the 19th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITS) in Vienna, Austria.
For more information and registration: http://2012.itsworldcongress.com/content

5th European Conference on ICT for Transport Logistics (ECITL '12) from November 7-9, 2012 in Gothenburg, Sweden. This year's conference will focus on "Smart Freight to enable sustainable logistics solutions" and will highlight innovations and applications in this area.

This international event will merge business (where is the money) and technology, and will focus on two Internet of Things cases: The individual and The Home.Internet of Things is still very much a technology driven activity applied by hard- and software developers, whereby competing technologies offer different solutions with unclear business cases. Besides that different industries who don’t know each other traditionally, need to work together in order to create new succesful IoT value chains.The following topics will be covered during the conference:

The European Comission is organising an event in the European Parliament which will illustrate how research contributes to real-life health, sustainability and mobility applications and services. For two days following the opening festivities on the 8th of October, MEPs will get individual guided tours through our ICT building blocks and will get hands-on experiences of the research that is done in Europe. Right now they are looking for these "Made in Europe" components by our projects to showcase them for the MEPs.

Under the aegis of the Hungarian EUREKA Chairmanship aconference and matchmaking event will be organized in Budapest on 2- 3 April 2012, in line with the Hungarian Chairmanship Initiative: promoting RTD driven project generation focusing on grand challenges related to the food technologies. The program of the conference is enclosed.All practical information concerning the conference is available on the chairmanship's website: http://eureka.kormany.hu/food-for-future-future-of-food-budapest